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IT pros continue to gripe about the career landscape. Going out on your own is one option. But how easy is it? We've been writing a lot lately on IT careers. Most of it hasn't been very cheery.
Take this....

An apparent breakthrough in video search: "Until I saw the demo, I thought this type of technology was still years away."
Why you care, beyond new ways to waste time on YouTube: your company probably has ....

Scott Rosenberg is unimpressed at a new company's plan to spot media bias by means of a computer program:
Plenty of Web startups begin with a good idea and fail because it's just plain hard to build softw....

An interesting look at VMware, where the firing of CEO Diane Greene remains a big story more than a year after it happened.
CIOs may focus on this aspect: "Competitors like Microsoft, Citrix Systems and O....

WSJ reports on the trend toward cost-saving green technology, especially in data centers.
How mainstream has Green IT become? Notice the explanation for neophytes in the following quote of that exotic te....

Many companies have training programs in place. But do they go the distance? At the risk of repeating ourselves, there's a shortage of qualified IT executives out there, making it all the more crucial tha....

Scoble: Your website stinks.
Boy, do they suck. Really, really suck.
Does no one understand how to market themselves?
Now that he's got your attention, he offers a detailed critique.
He's talking to so....

"Nothing in society poses as grave a threat to privacy as the Internet Service Provider."
Thus begins a Jeremiad by University of Colorado law prof Paul Ohm, who says new tools and financial incentives pr....

RWR: "Today, if you're not staying current with Web 2.0 technologies' impact on business, then you're just not staying current. Period."
But a lot of companies are in denial about social media, even as th....

Google's new Chrome browser: not ready for the enterprise.
The lack of ActiveX support is a problem.
Google (to which we wish a happy 10th birthday) likes to release things in beta and keep improving the....

Early reviews are not kind for the new Microsoft ad featuring Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates, but you can judge it for yourself:
OK, I didn't want to prejudice you, but it wasn't very good, was it? The w....

A shortage of qualified IT pros puts training under a very bright, hot spotlight. Still, businesses struggle to develop efficient training protocols. Tech tools may be the answer. Preeminent leadership coa....

My last question for Vint Cerf was about the future. What does a guy who helped create the internet think the net, and the society built around it, might look like in 20 or 50 years from now?
"That's real....